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WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- A fecal transplant from a lean donor can temporarily improve insulin resistance in obese men but the success might depend on the recipient's gut microbes, according to results of a small clinical trial in the Netherlands. The findings, published Tuesday in the ...
(HealthDay)—Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a rationally selected donor seems safe and effective for patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), according to a study presented at the World Congress of Gastroenterology, being held in
After donors and patients underwent serial stool sampling and studies to stamp out the potential for transmitting infectious agents, the researchers administered the donor-derived FMT to patients viacolonoscopyevery 14 days for 3 weeks, followed by pembrolizumab. To their delight, 6 of the 15 evaluab...
Results of faecal donor instillation therapy for recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea. We report a success rate of 83% with faecal donor instillation therapy (FDIT) in this retrospective study of 40 patients with recurrent Clostridium diffici... K Garborg,B Waagsb?,A Stallemo,.....
Findings from a small, proof-of-concept clinical trial have suggested that fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) can boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy in a range of gastrointestinal cancers.
Like the name implies, a fecal transplant involves transferring stool from a donor into a Crohn's patient's digestive tract. The idea is tochange the bacterial composition of the gut, and hopefully quiet the inflammation that causes symptoms. ...
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Its great therapeutic success notwithstanding, some important questions remain: How precisely do donor bacteria change the recipient's gut microbiota and which bacteria make the best poop transplants? And because poop contains trillions of bacteria and hundreds of bacterial species, scientists have not ...
Fecal transplants rebalance the microbial flora of the intestines—thegut microbiome—by providing recipients with bacteria derived from the stool of a healthy donor. Introducing new bacteria—which replicate—diversifies the bacterial communities flourishing in the gut. After thetransplant, there was a ...